Printing-press.



Patented Feb. l2, I90l.

L. C; CROWELL.

PRINTING PRESS.

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LUTHER C. CROW'ELL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNEASSIGNMENTS, TO ROBERT HOE AND CHARLES W. CARPENTER,

OF SAME PLACE.

PRlNTlNG-PRESS.

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Pat ent No. 667,679, datedFebruary 12, 1901.

Application filed December 31,1897. serial No. 665,164. \llo model.)

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Be it known that I, LUTHER C. CROWELL, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, (Brooklyn,) county of Kings,and State ofNewYork,have invented certain new and useful Improvements inPrinting-Presses, full described and represented in the followingspecification and the accompanying drawings, forming part of the same.

lvlyinvention relates to presses in which a delivery is employed whichstaples the prodnot, such as is shown in a general sense in my PatentNo. 510,528. In these deliveries a number of plies of paper are fastenedtogether by staples, and it is frequently desirable in such products toassociate with th estapled plies one or more additional plies ofunstapled paper which may,if desired, be folded with the stapled plies.This is desirable for the purpose of combining with the stapled producta sheet printed with a cut of a size larger than a single page of thestapled prodnot and which cut it is undesirable to fold and staple. Thisis also desirable for the purpose of permitting the utilization of oneor both surfaces of the whole sheet as an unbroken printed surface to beoccupied by a single advertisement or other matter which it isundesirable to separate by a marginal and stapled line.

My present invention has for its object the meeting of theserequirements by providing means for associating stapled and unstapledplies and when desired for cutting and {olding these plies. It is to beunderstood that the plies to be associated, part of which are stapled,may be either in the form of webs or of sheets.

An important application of my invention may he made where papers areprinted with the columns transverse to the run of the webs. It isconvenient to print in this manner papers having the full sheet of asize equal to that of the ordinary newspaper page, such sheets beingfolded once on a center marginal line. When arranged to print in thismanner, a press such as is now ordinarily employed to print with thecolumns parallel with the run of the webs has an increased adaptabilityas regards the number of pages in the product. Such a product is,moreover, of a size more convenient for manipulation by the reader, andis therefore preferable. Objection is made to it, however, on the groundthat it does not afford a sufficientlylarge unbroken space forpurposesof advertisement,illustration,cc.,asintimated above. My presentinvention is adapted to overcome this objection by associating with thestapled product one or more unstapled plies of paper of the fullordinary page size. Thus the ordinary web-press now in use may beemployed to print a usual product having the page of half the presentordinary size, and when it is desired a page or pages of the fullpresent ordinary size may be associated therewith and delivered as apart of the completed product.

In the drawings annexed to this specification, Figure 1 is a frontelevation, Fig. 2 a plan view, and Fig. 3 aside elevation, of a pressembodying my invention.

A is the paper-supply roll; B and C, the plate-cylinders5 D and E, theimpression-cylinders, and F the web of paper. Any associating device forbringing the webs of paper together, or where the web is severed intosheets before the stapling operation, the sheets,forstapling,isemployed. The mechanism shown herein consists of the folder of my PatentNo. 331,280, which is used herein as an associating device. In thisfolder the V- shaped former is shown at G, the external turners at H I,and the nipping-rolls at KL. The web is slit on the center line of theformer. The stapling mechanism shown is indicated at M. This mechanismmay be of any suitable or desired formsuch, for instance, as that shownin my Patent No. 510,840.

The paper passes from the stapling mechanism to the guide and feedingrolls X X, thence to the cutting and folding cylinders O P,folding-rolls Q Q, and the rotary fiy R. Provision is made for printinga web or Webs to be associated with the stapled product by .providing aseparate press for the purpose or by making the cylinders abovementioned long enough to print an additional web or webs of paper. Themachine shown is what is known as double-width, the cylinders being of alength corresponding to the Width of two ordinary newspapers. The webshown is three-quarters width and is slit at the point corresponding tothe center of the cylinders, as well as at the center line of former G,and the col umn-rnles of that portion of the cylinders to theleft of thecenter are arranged around the cylinders instead of along the same.

As many webs may be provided for association with the stapled product asmay be desired. In the present instance a single web of the width of theordinary newspaperpage, or a width representing one-fourth of the lengthof the cylinders, is shown, this web passing over one-half of the V-shaped former G, between the external turners and ni ppingrolls,aroundguide-roller S,and between guide and feed rollers X X, where it isassociated with the stapled webs, and thence passes with them to thecutting and folding cylinders O P and the fly R.

In the arrangement shown the unstapled ply is folded within the stapledproduct. If the unstapled ply were brought up to the opsite side of thestapled plies, it would be folded on the outside of the same, as mightbe desired for a cover.

What I claim is- 1. The combination of means for associating a number ofwebs'of paper, means for uniting them by staples, means for associatingwith said stapled product another web or webs of paper unstapled, andmeans for sev ering the webs and folding the resulting sheets,substantially as described.

2. The combination of printing-surfaces having the columns runningtransversely of the run of the paper, means for associating page-widthWebs printed thereon, means for uniting them by staples,printing-surfaces having the columns running parallel. with the run ofthe paper, means for associating a web or webs of paper printed on thelast-men tioned printing-surfaces with the stapled webs printed upon bythe first-mentioned printingsurfaces, and means for severing the websand folding the resulting sheets, substan- "tially as described.

3. The combination of in cans for associating a number of plies ofpaper, means for uniting them by staples, means for associating withsaid stapled plies another ply or plies of paper T. F. KEHOE, J. A.GRAVES.

